We live in a world where most polluted environments are in areas where poor and people of color live. These communities are often targeted as locations for the placement of facilities that negatively impact the environment. Environmental justice has always been a massive friction in the USA, states have started creating policies on environmental justice. Numerous community activists have been working towards Environmental justice. Australia is one of the most secluded continents and when we think of it, it is seen as an oasis. Although, up until recently, Australia had no concerns for their underprivileged communities of indigenous people. Through informing the communities, supporting, empowering and advocating for Indigenous communities,
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In 2009, the Australian federal Court had a hearing to examine plans to build a nuclear waste dump in the township of Muckaty Station in central Australia. Housing a nuclear waste facility would have major effects on the communities living in that area (O'Callaghan, 2014). Theses indigenous people live their lives in a why where they have to justify their connection to the land and their rights to the land, in respect to what they take. This would be taken away from them; "Flora and Fauna Act", which mandates that indigenous Australians were governed and managed under the same portfolio as Australian wildlife (Low,1999), which is completely …show more content…
This issue is not just affecting one community, these corporations and lifestyles we live are endangering 1,500 species of fish that live there. Environmental factors that are juristically impacting this delicate marine environment is climate change, catchment pollution, coastal development, and fishing. World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) is working hard to drill into the world governments, that there needs to be urgent action to address climate change globally. They have created major noise that has helped boost the Reef’s resilience to the idea that the climate is changing. We as the people need to urge action on one another to help stop the local impacts of coastal development, such as ports and polluted run-off from agriculture. It is our responsibility to manage our oceans and preserve our marine ecosystem just like the Aboriginal communities did before they were pushed
In 2009, the Australian federal Court had a hearing to examine plans to build a nuclear waste dump in the township of Muckaty Station in central Australia. Housing a nuclear waste facility would have major effects on the communities living in that area (O'Callaghan, 2014). Theses indigenous people live their lives in a why where they have to justify their connection to the land and their rights to the land, in respect to what they take. This would be taken away from them; "Flora and Fauna Act", which mandates that indigenous Australians were governed and managed under the same portfolio as Australian wildlife (Low,1999), which is completely …show more content…
This issue is not just affecting one community, these corporations and lifestyles we live are endangering 1,500 species of fish that live there. Environmental factors that are juristically impacting this delicate marine environment is climate change, catchment pollution, coastal development, and fishing. World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) is working hard to drill into the world governments, that there needs to be urgent action to address climate change globally. They have created major noise that has helped boost the Reef’s resilience to the idea that the climate is changing. We as the people need to urge action on one another to help stop the local impacts of coastal development, such as ports and polluted run-off from agriculture. It is our responsibility to manage our oceans and preserve our marine ecosystem just like the Aboriginal communities did before they were pushed